Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, major stakeholder in Royal Dutch Shell

Viscount Etienne Davignon, former vice-president of the European commission, president of the Bilderberg steering committee

Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve and chairman of Barack Obama’s economic recovery board (centre); James Johnson, vice-chairman of Perseus (right)

Robert Zoellick, head of the World Bank (centre); John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of the Economist (left)

Nout Wellink, president of the Bank of the Netherlands

From left to right: in background, Jyrki Katainen, Finnish minister of finance; in centre, with moustache, Dieter Zetsche, chairman of Daimler AG, head of Mercedes-Benz Cars; to right of pillar, Jorma Ollila, chairman of Nokia, member of the board of directors of Ford and non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch Shell

Neelie Kroes, Dutch politician. Former European commissioner for competition, current European commissioner for digital agenda

Olaf Scholz, vice-chairman of the German Social Democrat party (left); Craig Mundie, chief research officer of Microsoft (right)

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, the ‘founding father’ of the EU and ‘intellectual impetus’ behind the euro, president of the thinktank Notre Europe, member of the ‘Group of 30’ (chairman, Paul Volcker)

Francisco Pinto Balsemão, former prime minister of Portugal and CEO of Impresa, farewells an unknown delegate

Victor Halberstadt, Bilderberg steering committee, professor of public economics at Leiden University, Netherlands, and international adviser for Goldman Sachs

Javier Solana, secretary general of Nato from 1995 to 1999, and high representative for common foreign and security policy of the European Union from 1999 until 2009. He is a Knight of the Order of St Michael and St George, and a member of the Club of Rome